Idiot disease

[orange_crushed]

I have a pretty charming green jacket that I can only wear when the weather is just right- windy and springish, but with a warm sun. It's not a dull shade, and not quite a jewel tone (as I look like a middle-aged tourist in jewel tones.) On the downside, with a green jacket the red highlights in my hair bceome more pronounced, as do the freckles; and I realize now that I should probably never wear anything that color, as I look like a fat imitation of Ginny, or the Lucky Charms guy.

So: walking home yesterday afternoon, in said jacket, I passed a dive bar that always opens its door in the good weather, letting the early afternoon winos wander about freely like a small herd of geese. One was standing by the corner, and gave me a rude stare in the direction of my breasts, and then said very loudly: "Hey, it's the leprechaun !"

At which point something took hold of my brain, maybe the jacket; maybe the nice weather or the antibiotics; maybe some kind of idiot disease. Because I snapped back: "Hey, it's the drunk !"

I had to run for three blocks, but the fear tasted like delicious ice cream in my mouth.



Love your normally timid,
Orange.

Comments

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

Go you good thing!

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I shook my tough-talkin moneymaker all the way to the front door, where I hoped that he had fallen down somewhere along the way and would not murder me tomorrow.

Ahh, bums.

[marginaliana]

Good for you! :D

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

Heh. I did not feel particularly large and clever at the time, but I can gloat now. Muuwah.

[the-grynne.livejournal.com]

Hee. I can totally see that. :)

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

Why, because I am crazy ? Hee.

And later, I actually did eat ice cream, which was awesome.

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

Did that guy actually chase after you? Yikes!

I know how you feel though. I once told a drunk frat boy "fuck you mother fucker!" Cause he told me he'd slit my throat cause me and friend were Korean. I was skeert though!

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

The chasing was half-hearted. Nothing takes the wind out of you like being drunk at five-thirty pm.

Also: fuck that frat boy. Go you. I hope somebody hit him with sticks.

[hansbekhart.livejournal.com]

**sporfles out loud** Go you!

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

Hee ;)

[aidara.livejournal.com]

*laughs hysterically*

That sounds like something I would do, though I'm normally timid myself. :D

[orangewinters.livejournal.com]

Go you! One day, I hope to snap at someone in a satisfying way. Actually, I might have managed it the other month. Yes, I did turn around and yell at people talking obnoxiously through a (bad) movie! My heart pounded rather irrationally afterwards, but it felt GOOD. Really, I wish I could bring myself to snap in these situations more often.

And I'm reminded by your post that I didn't read that last fic of yours yet! *runs to do so now*